CVE-2024-50012 (GCVE-0-2024-50012)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:54 – Updated: 2026-06-01 16:04
VLAI
Title
cpufreq: Avoid a bad reference count on CPU node
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: Avoid a bad reference count on CPU node In the parse_perf_domain function, if the call to of_parse_phandle_with_args returns an error, then the reference to the CPU device node that was acquired at the start of the function would not be properly decremented. Address this by declaring the variable with the __free(device_node) cleanup attribute.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 13:28 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6653 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < 2b846344b15f933a56903b7cdba9080f06c725ff (git)
Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < 6c3d8387839252f1a0fc6367f314446e4a2ebd0b (git)
Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < 0f41f383b5a61a2bf6429a449ebba7fb08179d81 (git)
Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < 77f88b17387a017416babf1e6488fa17682287e2 (git)
Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < 47cb1d9278f179df8250304ec41009e3e836a926 (git)
Affected: 8486a32dd484a7d7ec25295c7439094608f54915 , < c0f02536fffbbec71aced36d52a765f8c4493dc2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.116 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.55 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.14 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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